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A corporation is similar to a mob. It's a vehicle with which to diffuse responsibility with and do what is normally impossible.

While a plane does the impossibility of flying. These vehicles do what are normally impossible due to moral constraints. They're in fact the only thing you _can_ use in a moral battle. You can't fight for freedom without something to fight with.

The vehicle of amorality is necessary to deliver your desired payload/effect of your chosen morality upon the world.

So the VC or rich person who scoffs "These protesters should do something with their lives and start companies or something." actually have a point... A mob is to a company what sticks and stones are to guns.

A gun isn't the greatest example though as it has the simplified interface of a simple trigger even a child could use. Something like... a mecha robot suit ... more fits the reality of payroll, accounting, incorporation, hiring, etc...

Sticking with the gun analogy though a gun needs bullets and a company needs money. Without this 'fuel' the 'weapon' is useless. When a country is divided into people with and without money it's the same as a 3rd world country where people are divided into those with and w/o guns

Gun culture, with its increased desire to hold onto actual physical guns probably arises from a vague but very real sense of losing real power.

The mob:company analogy also reveals why it can feel so draining within a company. You can't be part of a mob without signalling that you're "with it". Otherwise the mob turns on you.